Example sentences of "sent [prep] him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 2 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 3 | Had she really been sent to him by the spirit of True Valiance himself , to test his chivalry and honour ? |
| 4 | This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment . |
| 5 | France , the papacy , Poland and perhaps other states , also honoured Venetian ambassadors in these ways , while in 1603 the doge in Venice knighted a group of seven ambassadors sent to him by the Grisons league in Switzerland , and in 1621 James I did the same for six deputies sent to London by the Dutch republic . |